Join us Tuesday May 20, 2025 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm
at the Calvary Presbyterian Church, 4th and Lippincott Streets, Riverton, NJ.
Everyone loves celebrating good work!
Whether you’re the proud owner of a historic property or love them because they are the character of Riverton, you know this is truly a labor of love.
HSR periodically publicly acclaims some of those who have gone the extra mile to care for our history.
Come and give your neighbors a round of applause to show our appreciation for what they’ve done.
Here’s a sneak peak at our winners this year. Drumroll, please …
Our top award, the Daniel Campbell Preservation Award goes to John and Danielle Casparro for their extensive (and of course continuing) restoration of 101 Lippincott Avenue, the Charles C. Miller and Hetty Lippincott Miller house.
To Gail and John Caruso for their home at 600 Elm Terrace (long known as “Dr. Mark’s House”). They re-roofed with modern materials that bring back the look of the Mediterranean tile roof. With architect Neil K. Johnson of Moorestown they added a gracious front porch that looks like it was always there.
A previous winner, Joe Rainer just keeps on going. This time it’s for multiple projects …
In 2022, just as HSR was getting ready to award Joe for multiple projects, a disastrous late night fire swept his 1922 “Williams & Wright Building” at Broad and Main. While many owners would have used this as a pretext to demolish and build something new and probably non-historic smack in the middle of our downtown, Joe brought the original building back, better than ever.
He has also done considerable upgrades to his other buildings recently, including the stunning repainting of the New Leaf at 606 Main Street.
Plus two “Honor Recognition Awards”:
Brewery 33 for creating an attractive new business right in the center of Riverton in place of a storage lot that had seen better days.
Pat McDermott in recognition of decades of volunteer service to improve the appearance of downtown Riverton and in countless other civic projects.
Come out and say “well done!”
So nice to see that the house we lived in, 101 Lippincott, for years has been taken care of so well. I trust that the carriage house behind, converted by Tom Parry Jr and Walter Cope, is being taken care of as well.
Wish I could be there for the ceremony.
Tom Parry lll